With so many advancements in phone technology happening so quickly, I'm curious about the latest trends we should be keeping an eye on. It feels like every year, new features are making our phones faster, smarter, and more intuitive. Whether it’s Android lock screen widgets, new AI capabilities, there’s always something new. What are the top trends you think are worth paying attention to right now?
personally definitely not AI, i don't hate AI but AI is just tool for me, sometime i use them but i don't get attach on them, i mean if i could solve my problem w/o AI then i don't need to use or ask it.
i don't like foldable phones, they are easy to break, and it's a sudden break, i have read some reports here in samsung members that their fold/flip phone suddenly blackout after they fold their phone, they always said they never drop their phone, so i don't know what cause foldable phone easier to break than candy bar phone, not to mention screen protector of foldable phone can peel off soon or later.
usually i focus on privacy thingy feature, like Google introduced Theft Detection feature for Android 10 or higher, and also i read somewhere that Auto block for one ui 7 finally can block 2G connection, because 3G or lower connection isn't safe, so finally with One UI 7 i can block 2G connection and rely only with 4G or 5G connection that are much safer, Asus phone such as Asus Zenfone 9 with Android 14 already can turn off 2G connection.
in Android 15 Google also introduced a new feature (i don't remember the name of the feature), basically the phone will ask Google account password after performing factory reset, for instance if a thief reset my phone thru recovery mode, whenever they try to use my phone then my phone will ask my google account password first before they could use my phone normally, i could be wrong bu it think this is what google mean about this feature, so it's like iCloud of iPhone, you can't use an iPhone if you don't have access to the iCloud
for new phone, i don't expect anything new beside better battery performance, sure CPU or GPU both are getting more powerful each year now with better NPU for AI thing, but up to now samsung battery stuck with Li-ion battery (i know GSMArena listed some of Galaxy phone having Li-Po battery, but whenever i watch tear down youtuve video of any galaxy phone, it's always written as "Secondary Li-ion battery" with 5 years of usage symbol" in their battery), i think Samsung needs to step up battery type to Graphite battery or something better
